I was intending to write this article a month ago, around the 13th anniversary of this sites founding, but given how much chaos last month was it got delayed while I worked on some other more critical tasks. Today, to finish off this week I figured now would be as good a time as ever …
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I Promise, Those Classic Game Reviews Are Coming
I’ve been saying for years I want to get to doing game reviews on the website. As damn near archaic as the idea seems — reviews are quite “old hat” as they say that very fact that they are seen as so old fashioned and aren’t as common now as they used to be makes …
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Installing Mac OS Lion On My Mac Mini – The Hard Way
Yesterday I told the story of how I wound up having to put a new hard drive in one of my Mac mini systems and, thanks to that, also reinstall Mac OS so the computer would be usable. After an entire night of messing with the system and figuring out just what had gone on, …
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Death Of A Hard Drive; Or, Why I Stayed Up Until 5:30 In The Morning Working On A Mac Mini
You ever have one of those night where you just have to get something done before you can go to sleep? That’s how last night was for me, thanks to the death of a hard drive in one of my 2 Mac mini systems. The unit in question is an old Core 2 Duo system …
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I Miss Making Videos, But I Don’t Miss YouTube
From a period around 2013 until maybe 2017 or 2018 at the latest, I tried my damnedest to have fun with a YouTube channel which focused on my various projects, interests, and the like, much like any other even remotely “geeky” person tends to do. For a while it was fun, but soon, thanks to …
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What Makes Old Computers So Much Fun?
Since finally getting much of my vintage computer collection back into a usable location I’ve somewhat run back into a kick of playing around with the old machines and watching / reading media related to them, their operating systems, what have you. It’s been a nice break from work, current events, and music related studies …
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Angry Video Game Nerd – Season 6 Review
Last week I made it a goal to cover all of AVGN Season 6 within a 5 day period. This was, by far, the shortest “season” of the Nerd, at only 5 episodes, and worked out perfectly to an episode each day. I completed this goal and pushed myself into what I consider the “Modern” …
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What The PlayStation 5 Controller Design Can Tell Us About The PlayStation 5 Console Design
Last night Sony posted a blog entry showing off the new controller for the PlayStation 5. I covered that in the previous article, but at the end of that entry mentioned that the visual style of this controller may give us a clue as to what the PlayStation 5 console itself may actually look like. …
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The PlayStation 5 “DualSense” Controller: Much Of The Same, With More We Didn’t Need
Last night on the PlayStation blog Sony showed off an image of the controller for the PlayStation 5, properly identifying it as the “DualSense” Controller. What they showed isn’t a radical departure from the PlayStation 4 controller, but certainly still is different from the controller design PlayStation gamers have been used to for the past …
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Getting Back To My Vintage Computer Collection
Over the past year or so my “office” in one room of the house has become pretty much nothing but storage, and in the process my Macintosh systems as well as a few other Windows machines of varying vintages have been effectively inaccessible. Over the past week some work has been done on that room …
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As Society Falls Apart, My Life Is Mostly Unchanged – Pandemic Log 4/6/2020
It’s been a few weeks since I wrote about the inescapable fact of reality that is COVID-19. In those weeks, things have, obviously, gotten worse. Much worse. We went from having a few cases in my county to over 700, with 13 deaths. That’s just in the county — the state is now at nearly …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 106: Bible Games III – Episode Review
It’s time for the 2011 Holiday episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd, and in this case we have the third and, so far, final installment of “Bible Games” — games produced with Christian themes targeted towards religious audiences, with virtually all of them, by the nature of their subject matter, being (ironically) unlicensed by …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 105: Dark Castle – Episode Review
Here we have the 2011 Halloween AVGN episode – Dark Castle for the Sega Genesis. The Nerd introduces the episode pondering on why the NES had so many terrible games for it, and decides to give the big, bad 16 bit Sega Genesis a go as a change of pace, and the game of choice …
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Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 104: Nintendo World Championships – Episode Review
Here we have a very special Angry Video Game Nerd episode. Not only is does this one cover an incredibly important game in Nintendo history, the Nintendo World Championships competition cartridge, but it also features a crossover between both James Rolfe as the Nerd and Pat Contri as Pat the NES Punk. During this time …
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5 Things We *Know* The PlayStation 5 Will Do
Recently Sony finally got off its butt and actually announced some information about the PlayStation 5, including system specifications and details on its backwards compatibility or, more correctly, its lack thereof, but still left quite a bit to the internet rumor mill. I thought it would be nice to cut through the lies and attention-seeking …
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